LUSAKA, Dec 19, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX)
-- The U.S. government has given the World Food Program (WFP) 1 million
U.S. dollars for the purchase of emergency food supplies to feed over 125,000
refugees in Zambia, Times of Zambia reported on Wednesday.

JOHANNESBURG, Dec 12, 2001 (Xinhua via
COMTEX) -- The United States would consider a request for financial
help for the next round of peace talks in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC), a US official said on Wednesday.

NAIROBI, Dec 10, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX)
-- Aisha Daisy Bukuru, deputy representative of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has hailed the devotion that the
Rwandan government has demonstrated in providing protection, security and
assistance to refugees, the Rwanda News Agency reported on Monday.

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - A
UN radio station to be known as "Okapi" is scheduled to begin
broadcasts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) next month, the world
body's Observer Mission in Congo announced in Kinshasa Friday.

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Unarmed
opposition political parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo are scheduled
to meet in Brussels from 15-16 January 2002, a spokesman of the Belgian
foreign ministry, Koen Vervaeke, announced here Wednesday.

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Diseases
formerly regarded as eradicated, such as plague and whooping cough, have
recently resurfaced in the DR Congo, due to lack of access to health care,
charity organisations reported.

KAMPALA, Nov 27, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX)
-- A high level delegation of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) will arrive in Uganda Wednesday for a two-day visit, according
to a press release from the UNHCR Office here on Tuesday.

LUSAKA, Nov 20, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX)
-- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said
the continued civil and political upheavals in neighboring countries is
expanding the refugee population in Zambia now standing at 270,000, the
biggest in the southern African region, the official Zambia Daily Mail
reported Tuesday.

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The
World Bank has granted DR Congo 50 million US dollars, the largest amount
to the country from the Bank for over a decade, according to Callisto Madavo,
the Bank's Vice-President for the African Region.

Paris, France (PANA) - Two non-governmental
organisations based in France have decided to put their resources together
to help children orphaned by the war and HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic
of Congo.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The
Peoples' Republic of China has donated 200,000 dollars to the OAU Peace
Fund to support activities of the Joint Military Commission in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Germany
has released 750,000 DM (about 352,000 US Dollars) as emergency assistance
to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The
spokesman for the UN Mission in DR Congo (MONUC), Hamadoun Toure, has expressed
concern over what he said was a confusing situation in Kanyabayong, where
Ugandan and Rwandan troops were reportedly disputing frontline positions.